Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They keep talking about the iron curtain," complained a Rome cab driver last week, "but it's not the iron curtain that worries me. It's the green curtain that comes down every morning between me and my cabbage." In the argot of workaday Rome, the green curtain is the term used to describe the veil of mystery behind which the shrewd middlemen in the city's huge wholesale vegetable market operate to send the prices of simple foodstuffs soaring...
...Paulo's 1953 biennial, a second in last year's Carnegie International (but not the Barcelona Biennial grand prize, which Tamayo turned down, later explaining: "I am not on good terms with Mr. Franco"). At home Tamayo, outspokenly antiCommunist, has been up against an iron phalanx of pro-Marxist critics. Only four years ago die the government finally relent, award him his first official mural commission (TIME, April...
...Industries, was sponsored by the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations. To get the facts on both sides of the tariff story, Bidwell assembled a standing team of 28 top bankers, educators, editors, businessmen, government officials, and had them scrimmage in round-table discussions with leaders of the eight industries: iron and steel, synthetic chemicals, electrical equipment, watches, bicycles, chinaware, glassware, woolens. Represented were both ardent protectionists and advocates of free trade...
When Hollywood partners part, they often do it with a bang. Author Ben Hecht and Cinemactor Bob Hope were partners in MGM's The Iron Petticoat, a Ninotchka-type farce co-starring Hope and Katharine Hepburn. The script by Hecht tells of a Russian aviatrix who flees the Soviet Union in a MIG and is piloted about Europe by a U.S. Air Force officer. Now that The Iron Petticoat is ready to be publicized, Scripter Hecht last week washed his hands of the whole project in a paid ad ($275) on the back page of the Hollywood Reporter...
...This is to notify you that I have removed my name as author from our mutilated venture, The Iron Petticoat...